Sun Microsystems is sick and tired of rolling over while the likes of IBM and Cray dominate the low margin, high profile world of super computers.
There's little fanfare and few celebratory headlines for the company that builds the 9th largest supercomputer — not even a complimentary fruit basket. Such clamor is reserved for …

ice-cream !

Magnum over here is a vanilla - chocolate dipped ice-cream (and I think the name is a registered trademark in europe, there has been legal axing going on about it......) It is the favourite ice-cream of millions of europeans ;)

looks like Sun is finally on the way of some serious linux adaption; that is good :)

Magnum

RE: ice-cream !

I'd rather see them sticking with solid and stable Slowaris (although personally I prefer NetBSD) -- in fact, the mere though of running Lunix on such a system scares me to death. /Especially/ when the system in question is dumbed down to cope with it.